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January is creativity month and so we featured a number of stories and videos on DIY projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We asked our Facebook<\/a> fans what creative projects they\u2019re working on<\/a>. And we also recently released two new ebooks, Angel Gifts: Inspiring Stories and Angel Crafts to Nurture Your Creativity<\/a><\/em> and Creativity and Personal Growth: 7 Inspiring Stories on How Crafts Can Change Your Life<\/a><\/em>, both of which help us see how creative acts connect us to others, lift our spirit and strengthen our relationship to God.<\/p>\n

How can sewing a quilt, you ask, deepen my relationship with God? Because if God is the Creator of all things then when we play an instrument, tell a story or crochet an afghan, we are emulating him. Madeleine L\u2019Engle, author of the much beloved A Wrinkle in Time<\/em>, sees it a bit differently: \u201cTo paint a picture or to write a story or to compose a song is an incarnational activity\u2026. In a very real sense the artist should be like Mary who, when the angel told her that she was to bear the Messiah, was obedient to the command.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe,\u201d L\u2019Engle continues, \u201cthat each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, \u2018Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, we may not be Frida Kahlo or Georgia O\u2019Keefe, but we are all artists. Our tools may just happen to be needle and thread or flour and butter; our masterpieces, quilts and cakes. What a wonderful thought: I’m sewing, dancing, painting, baking, scrapbooking, crocheting and singing myself closer to God!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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